$5,000,000

[1hooper]

secure.keeneland.com/sales/k224/pdfs/347.pdf

[5wide]

Beautiful horse, but 5 mil ?


horse-races.net/library/derby-auctionprices.htm

As you can see, a high price at auction doesn't guarantee a good finish much less a win in the Kentucky Derby, but TWO Triple Crown winners were bought for low prices at auction. $1 million or more horses have fared particularly badly, with only one win (Fusaich Pegasus) and one second (Lion Heart) from 20 horses.

[mysaladdays]

I think the historical stats are horses $500K or so do best in TC races. But of course the economy changes over the years, plus hard to create a stat on smaller sample sizes involving horses over $1 million since there have not been a whole lot of them.

Tapit Trice comes to mind.....hasn't been a world beater.....but I have a penchant for those "big body Benz" type horses, who are like immovable objects once they get going, so.......

[mysaladdays]

Sometimes though, the $5 million purchases may be worth it.  

Seems like a very handy pedigree at any number of different distances, too, at least looking at the pedigree. 

www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/m-v-magnier-goes-to-5-1m-for-ramatuelle/